[Xerte-dev] Re: testing results

[Smith, John]

It's only when a reply is sent to you Pat. Like this...

Regards,

John Smith | Learning Technologist
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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat L (pgogy) [xerte at pgogywebstuff.com]
Sent: 04 April 2014 10:17
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: testing results

I use a gmail proxy for this account (so maybe I get sent of behalf of stuff?)

Had no email from John though


On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Smith, John <J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk<mailto:J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk>> wrote:
I've notice that before... it's done it for ages, with Pat anyway...

Regards,

John Smith | Learning Technologist
Room A251, Govan Mbeki Building | School of Health & Life Sciences | Glasgow Caledonian University
Cowcaddens Road | Glasgow | G4 0BA
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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney [Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>]
Sent: 04 April 2014 09:26
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: testing results

Shouldn’t have.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 03 April 2014 18:09
To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: testing results

Also have the list settings changed? Just replied and hit send and noticed the reply when direct to Pat as well as the list and I hadn't selected reply to all.

From: Ron Mitchell [mailto:ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk<mailto:ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>]
Sent: 03 April 2014 18:07
To: 'xerte at pgogywebstuff.com<mailto:xerte at pgogywebstuff.com>'; 'For Xerte technical developers'
Subject: RE: [Xerte-dev] Re: testing results

My understanding is that this was accidental rather than deliberate (might be wrong about that) and the page shown if an installation exists doesn't contain any links. Obviously the general guidance is to remove or at least rename the setup folder after installation. I know things should perhaps be more robust that that but I can't see how this was accidental really.

Having tested this I'm more concerned about the session errors but not sure after what revision these were introduced.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk><mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Pat L (pgogy)
Sent: 03 April 2014 17:34
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: testing results

what if you hit a later page though - one of the other setup php folders?

Also what drop table commands are in the sql file?

On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk<mailto:ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk><mailto:ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk<mailto:ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>>> wrote:
Hi all
I'm sending this to the dev list but I posted a completely separate message this morning which still doesn't seem to have got through so sending this bcc to Julian too because it's partly due to some testing due to an issue reported about re-running setup breaking an install.

I've done some testing (via xampp for now) and as previously when there have been multiple contributions over a period of time it's a bit scary! (But not because of the setup question)

I downloaded xertetoolkits_2.1 Version:2.1 Last update  2014-03-14 from the community site. (BTW Tom the unstable download doesn't seem to work?)
Also I downloaded from the community site because that's the most likely place from where the community will download rather than direct from git.

Installed on xampp using the xampp option tested creation of a quick lo then revisited setup and get the following message:

[cid:image001.jpg at 01CF4FE8.05720840]
So if xampp quick install option chosen doesn't seem possible to overwrite db by revisiting setup with this revision which is obviously a good thing.

Repeated the process with full install option and same result e.g. revisiting setup prompts that the install already exists.

Obviously deleting database.php means that setup can be re-run.

So not sure how someone was able to break a working install via setup if the version installed included this detection.

But the scary bit is that it seems from my testing that this revision is not reliable e.g. one minute I can create an LO and the next minute I get one of two errors when trying to create a new lo:
Session ID not set
or
Invalid template_id (could not find in DB)

Does this not happen for others?

Ron

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